In the era of the European Union and globalization, where -like Rubik’s cube- every movement has consequences for all sides, the nation-states of the European Union are called to review ways of defining their national interests and conducting their foreign policies. [More..]

Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, wrote a chapter for a book edited by Franco Algieri and Arnold Kammel, which analyses the prospects of differentiated integration in Europe. The contribution is based on an analysis of six different potential forms of differentiation within and outside the European Union’s framework. The text ends with a set of concrete recommendations regarding the future of a differentiated Europe. [More..]

Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, has published two articles on Germany and the EU and on Flexibility (co-authored with Claus Giering) in the new addition of Europa von A-Z: Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration edited by Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels.

This 11th edition of Europa von A-Z includes updated references to the Treaty of Lisbon and to the upcoming European elections. It addresses all those who seek quick, comprehensive and precise information about the European integration process. In more than 70 articles renowned authors explain key issues related to EU affairs in a comprehensible fashion. The edited volume provides background knowledge for readers who want to know more about the European Union and who wish to understand current trends in European politics.

Europa von A–Z is a project jointly conducted by the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin, the Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung (CAP) at the University of Munich and the Jean Monnet Chair for political science at the University of Cologne.

Bibliography:

Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Deutschland in der EU, in Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels (eds.), Europa von A-Z: Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 11th edition, 2009, pp. 108-114; ISBN 978-3-8329-4478-0

Claus Giering and Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Flexibilisierung, in Werner Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Wessels (eds.), Europa von A-Z: Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 11th edition, 2009, pp. 242-246; ISBN 978-3-8329-4478-0

ELIAMEP organised a discussion with Mr. Davor Vidis, Director of Neighbouring Countries and South Eastern Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia on “Croatia’s relations with its neighbouring countries”, on 14 May 2009. Croatia completes this year eighteen years of existence as a modern state, and is a candidate state for entering the EU while it currently serves as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. Emerging from the civil war of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the challenges thereafter, Croatia is following today a forward looking strategy of stability and reconciliation based on a three fold axis:
Creating a stable democracy based on a series of internal reforms, establishing good relations with the neighbouring countries by solving bilateral problems and identifying points of cooperation and finally assuming an active role in the region and in the world. [More..]

The current European Commission reaches the end of its 2004-09 term. Experts from the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN) have evaluated the successes and failures of the (first) Barroso Commission from their national perspectives. The Greek country report was produced by Janis A. Emmanouilidis and Vanessa Stachtou from ELIAMEP. [More..]

Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, held a speech on the consequences of enlargement for EU foreign policy at a conference in Stockholm on 29 April 2009 dealing with the question of How to Strengthen the EU as a Global Partner. A couple of months before the start of the Swedish EU Presidency on July 1, 2009 a group of EU experts discussed (1) the effects of the global economic crisis, (2) the future relationship between the EU and its major partners [More..]

On 7 May 2009 leading policy-makers from the European Union (EU) will hold a high-level meeting with political leaders from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine in order to launch a new Eastern Partnership. Helen Wallace, the author of the newest issue of ELIAMEP Thesis entitled The European Union and its Neighbourhood: Time for a Rethink, [More..]

Professor Loukas Tsoukalis’ latest book includes sixty short articles on a wide range of subjects. It starts with the uncertain adaptation of Greece in response to a constantly changing world, a conservative society and a political system which has reached its limits: signs of a deepening crisis. One of the themes in the book is the political choices of a Europe that doesn’t know yet what she is and what she wants to become when she grows up. We live the end of an era in political, economical and ideological terms. Finally, markets are not auto-regulated, truth is not uni-dimensional and for sure one superpower is not enough to give its original interpretation, and also to impose it. However, who can predict the new era in a more complex world with many sources of instability and vague rules?

It is a matter of general acceptance that the Obama administration is largely different from its predecessor. The US’s renewed commitment to multilateralism and willingness to listen, arguably poses the question to its European counterparts. What do we want to say in response? This was addressed in a Lecture organised by ELIAMEP with Professor Lord William Wallace on April 14th, 2009.

According to Prof. William Wallace, it is a matter of interest to note that from the American point of view, the EU is regarded as a unity, possibly a federation in the making. In this framework the EU is viewed as a part of the western ‘free’ world, of which the natural leader remains the USA. This perception, however, comes in sharp contrast with the current image of fragmentation that the EU is projecting and the lack of coherence among the Europeans. [More..]

On 7 May 2009 the European Union and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine will officially launch the new Eastern Partnership, which was originally proposed by Poland and Sweden. At a lecture , organised by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation and the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) on April 8th, held at the Onassis Foundation, Professor Helen Wallace, who is currently Onassis Fellow in Athens, spoke on The European Union and its Neighbourhood: The Need for a Rethink.

In her speech, Professor Wallace concentrated on the perspectives of Eastern Partnership, which is a newly developed initiative concerning the EU’s eastern neighbourhood based on two pillar. [More..]